FC3002
He wishes for the cloths of heaven
Music: Frances Cockburn, Words: W.B.Yeats
Voicing: SATB
Performance time approx: 2m 20s
Price code: B
Complexity:
A performance suggestion is to sing the piece through once to hums (bars 1 – 8) and aahs (bars 9 – 16) and then with the words, as written.
Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
W B Yeats